"Ruidetang" was a drugstore dealing in medicinal materials from the late Republic of China to the early establishment of New China. It ordered purple sand tea sets from Yixing and stamped its own shop number "Ruidetang" at the bottom.
Unfortunately, there is a small residue on the edge of the lid.
At the same time, I also bought a small Zhu pottery jar that was about to crack.
Small Zhu pottery jar, red and steady, exquisite workmanship. Covered with porcelain flowers. An old man in Chenmeng Mountain area.
Chen Meng, whose surname is Hui, is famous all over the world for making small pots. The small pot he made was exquisite and clumsy, and later generations called it Chen Meng pot. The pear-shaped pot made by it had the greatest influence, and it was exported to all parts of Europe at the end of the seventeenth century, which had a great influence on the early pot-making industry in Europe.
Chen Meng pot has a strong sense of rhythm, especially the spout of the pot, regardless of its length, is tall and vigorous, with distinctive features. The pot body is bright and shiny, the tire is thin and light, and the lines are round and smooth, which has become the outstanding style feature of Chen Meng pot.
Yang Xian's Teapot System says "I don't know when", but only knows that he is good at antique utensils and his calligraphy is skillful, simple and skillful. Scholars praise his calligraphy as "not vulgar" and "excellent in Chu Henan".
It is said that there are eleven characters in regular script at the bottom of the big white sand pot collected by Quanshan Museum, that is, "the ministerial system of Jingxi Huimeng in the year of Dingmao in the Apocalypse".
Hui is famous for making small pots at home and abroad. The pot he made has thin side walls, exquisite craftsmanship, light posture, simple shape and seamless cover. There is an inscription "Hui Zhi" in regular script at the bottom of the pot, which is very suitable for congou tea. "The cup is as small as a walnut, and the pot is as small as a fragrant rafter. Every time you pour it ..." (Mei Qingyuan's "Food List with the Garden"
Hui's pot art is outstanding and unique. His works are characterized by many small pots, few medium pots and the rarest big pots. The big one is simple, and the small one is exquisite. Good at preparing all kinds of mixed sand mud, including white sand, purple sand, cinnabar, more cinnabar and less white sand. The pot body is round and flat, with a high body, flat shoulders, pear shape, bulging belly, round belly and fan shape. Especially the pear-shaped pot has the greatest influence.
Huizhou school not only pays attention to the simplicity and exquisiteness of the pot body, but also pays attention to seal cutting calligraphy. His seal cutting calligraphy is very beautiful, not far from the Tang Xian style, and his brushwork is definitely like that of Chu Suiliang, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Meng pots were exported to Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and other countries, which had a great influence on the early pot-making industry in Europe. Even the royal silver tea set imitates the Chenli-shaped pot of Huimeng, which shows the position of Chen Meng pot in the history of the development of purple sand teapots in China.
The works related to pot-passing include "Biography of Pot in Wenxing Pavilion", "Biography of Pot in Jingxi Club", "Biography of Pot in Meng Huichen" and "Biography of Pot in Chen Meng". Some of them are marked with the year of production or quatrains, such as Exposing Ding Mao's Chen Meng System, Driving the Sun to Make the Stars Chen Meng System, Frosting the Leaves with Hard Frost and Green Chen Meng System, Dreaming in the Smoke Village for Four or Five Years, Clouding into the West of Tianjin, and Showing the Beauty of Endless Years. Generally speaking, Chen Meng system is composed of more than ten words or auspicious words engraved in poems, and the fonts are mostly regular script. Chen Meng's pot is the best product, with a small seal of "Yonglin" on the lid.
In addition, Chen Meng pot is also the customary name for Kung Fu teapot by tea people in southern Fujian and Taiwan Province. The local tea people especially cherish the exquisite Chen Meng teapot, which is not only a tea set, but also a work of art and a collection.
Historian Lian Heng wrote in "Talking about Tea": "Tea must have power, the pot must have ministers, and the cup must have cups. These three are the key to tea tasting, and they are not proud of it and are not enough to entertain guests. " Chen Meng pot and Ruochen cup form a perfect combination on the tea mat.
This "old friend in the mountains" Chen Meng pot is exquisite and lovely. 20 17 a friend introduced that there was a well-known shovel worker who was a shovel lover. He made the whole spatula with ten copper nails, and the spout was also covered with copper, which was beautiful as a whole. It seems to taste a little more than a good pot.